Originally Posted by
Chombi1
[snip] settled for a Minoura.
Not as heavy construction as the Park truing stands, but adequate for the very few wheels I build. Also about half the price and the extra money went to buy a matching Minoura dishing tool.
Right on, nobody "needs" a heavy/rigid truing stand. The Minoura makes wheels that are 100% as good as what you can do on a Park. Definitely a big improvement in the usefulness per dollar ratio.
I still have my old Minoura that sufficed before my Park Christmas present. It's now relegated to wheel washing, tubular gluing, anything that I don't want to get into my dial indicators. But it was a great stand before it got 'obsoleted' by the totally over-done TS3, the tool-fetishist's choice.